Breaking of VOW

Ecclesiastes 5:4-6 ESV / 32 helpful votes

When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying
Pay what you vow. It is better that you should
not pay. Let not your mouth lead you into sin,
that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry
of your hands?
it, for he has no pleasure in fools.
not vow than that you should vow and
and do not say before the messenger
at your voice and destroy the work

Deuteronomy 23:21-23 ESV / 23 helpful votes

�If you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay fulfilling it, for the
Lord your God will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin. But if
you refrain from vowing, you will not be guilty of sin. You shall be careful to do
what has passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God what
you have promised with your mouth.

Numbers 30:1-16 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the people of Israel, saying, �This is
what the Lord has commanded. If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to
bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all
that proceeds out of his mouth. �If a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds
herself by a pledge, while within her father's house in her youth, and her father
hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has bound herself and says nothing
to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she has bound
herself shall stand. But if her father opposes her on the day that he hears of it,
no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. And the Lord
will forgive her, because her father opposed her.

James 5:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes

But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any
other oath, but let your �yes� be yes and your �no� be no, so that you may not fall
under condemnation.

Numbers 30:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes

If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he
shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his
mouth.

Matthew 5:34-37 ESV / 13 helpful votes

But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the
throne of God, or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is
the city of the great King. And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot
make one hair white or black. Let what you say be simply �Yes� or �No�; anything
more than this comes from evil.

Matthew 5:33-37 ESV / 11 helpful votes

�Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, �You shall not swear
falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.� But I say to you, Do
not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the
earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great
King. And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or
black. Let what you say be simply �Yes� or �No�; anything more than this comes from
evil.

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

�You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Luke 16:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

�Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who
marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Numbers 30:1-2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the people of Israel, saying, �This is
what the Lord has commanded. If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to
bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all
that proceeds out of his mouth.

John 15:4-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it
abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are
the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit,
for apart from me you can do nothing.

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And he said, �What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out
of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride,
foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.�

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

�When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes
because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of
divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out
of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, and the latter man
hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends
her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then
her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after
she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not
bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the
sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the
lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.�

Romans 12:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

John 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus answered, �Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the
Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Luke 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Jesus answered him, �It is written, ��You shall worship the Lord your God, and
him only shall you serve.��

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let what you say be simply �Yes� or �No�; anything more than this comes from evil.

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

�For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of
Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard
yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.�

Deuteronomy 6:13-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you
shall swear. You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are
around you� for the Lord your God in your midst is a jealous God�lest the anger of
the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of
the earth.

Numbers 30:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

�If she marries a husband, while under her vows or any thoughtless utterance of her
lips by which she has bound herself,

1 John 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light,
and in him is no darkness at all.

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered
the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And large crowds followed him, and he healed
them there. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, �Is it lawful to
divorce one's wife for any cause?� He answered, �Have you not read that he who
created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, �Therefore a
man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two
shall become one flesh�?

Matthew 7:7-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

�Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be
opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to
the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for
bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If
you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more
will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand
it?

Psalm 15:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord;
who swears to his own hurt and does not change;

Deuteronomy 4:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may
keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.

Numbers 6:1-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, �Speak to the people of Israel and say to
them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to
separate himself to the Lord, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink.
He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any
juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. All the days of his separation he
shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the
skins. �All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until
the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy.
He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts,
kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Philippians 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.

Galatians 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

(In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!)

2 Corinthians 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I call God to witness against me�it was to spare you that I refrained from
coming again to Corinth.

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: �It is good for a man not to have
sexual relations with a woman.� But because of the temptation to sexual immorality,
each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband
should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does.
Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that
you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan
may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Romans 7:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while
her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if
she marries another man she is not an adulteress.

Acts 23:12-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to
eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. There were more than forty who made this
conspiracy. They went to the chief priests and elders and said, �We have strictly
bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul.

Acts 18:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of the brothers and
set sail for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had cut his
hair, for he was under a vow.

John 8:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He
was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because
there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he
is a liar and the father of lies.

John 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, �I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me
will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.�

Mark 10:2-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, �Is it lawful for a man to
divorce his wife?� He answered them, �What did Moses command you?� They said,
�Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.� And
Jesus said to them, �Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this
commandment. But from the beginning of creation, �God made them male and female.�

Matthew 28:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene
and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake,
for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone
and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.
And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men. But the angel
said to the women, �Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was
crucified.

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and
marries another, commits adultery.�

Matthew 10:32-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my

Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before
my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

�Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be
judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the
speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own
eye? Or how can you say to your brother, �Let me take the speck out of your eye,�
when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of
your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's
eye.

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of
sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman
commits adultery.

Matthew 5:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and
Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples
came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: �Blessed are the poor
in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. �Blessed are those who mourn, for
they shall be comforted. �Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Jeremiah 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her
away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but
she too went and played the whore.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem
in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens,
and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: �Children have I reared and brought
up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its
master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.� Ah, sinful
nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal
corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel,
they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you
continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Proverbs 20:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is a snare to say rashly, �It is holy,� and to reflect only after making vows.

Deuteronomy 24:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife,
after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you
shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an
inheritance.